Somerville police: Man threatens to kill woman with machete

Police arrested a man July 13 after he reportedly burst into a woman’s room with a machete and threatened to kill her.

Monica Jimenez

Police arrested a man July 13 after he reportedly burst into a woman’s room with a machete and threatened to kill her.

Daniel Caruso, 45, 97 Ten Hills Road, was arrested on Ten Hills Road on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.

Responding to a man threatening a woman with a knife on Ten Hills Road around 5 p.m., police met a woman, who directed them to the man’s bedroom.

In the living room, Caruso reportedly started arguing with the woman and another man, and was handcuffed and separated from the others.

The woman told police she was lying in bed when Caruso came into her room with a long knife with a serrated edge. Caruso came toward her, swinging the knife and saying he was going to kill her, she told police. The woman jumped out of bed, she said.

Police reportedly found a folding knife next to Caruso’s television. Under the bed, they reportedly found an 18-inch machete with saw teeth in the back side of the blade. The woman reportedly identified not the knife, but the machete as the weapon Caruso had used.